A 9-year-old girl in Charlotte, North Carolina, has captured people’s hearts with her tearful testimony about race relations in the wake of the fatal police shooting.

“I’ve come here today to talk about how I feel, and I feel like that we are treated differently than other people,” Zianna Oliphant told the City Council this week. “I don’t like how we’re treated. Just because of our color — doesn’t mean anything to me.”

Zianna Oliphant addresses the Charlotte City Council.AP

“I believe that …,” the little girl continued from her perch on a step ladder before breaking down in tears.

“I’ve been born and raised in Charlotte and I’ve never felt this way until now,” she said after people encouraged her to continue. “And I can’t stand how we’re treated. It’s a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed and we can’t even see them anymore. It’s a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them.

“And we have tears. And we shouldn’t have tears. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side,” Zianna said to applause.

‘It’s a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed and we can’t even see them anymore. It’s a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them.’

- Zianna Oliphant

Zianna addressed the meeting, where residents assailed Mayor Jennifer Roberts, Police Chief Kerr Putney and other officials over the way the probe into Keith Lamont Scott’s death at the hands of a cop was being handled.

“Release, release — the whole damn tape!” the crowd chanted at the meeting.

A day after her tearful plea, the fourth-grader told NBC News, “I was a little nervous, so I decided to just go up there and tell them how I feel. I was just feeling like what the police are doing to us, just because of our skin, is not right.”